Name

kthread_stop — stop a thread created by kthread_create.

Synopsis

int kthread_stop (struct task_struct *  k);

Arguments

k

thread created by kthread_create.

Description

Sets kthread_should_stop for k to return true, wakes it, and waits for it to exit. Your threadfn must not call do_exit itself if you use this function! This can also be called after kthread_create instead of calling wake_up_process: the thread will exit without calling threadfn.

Returns the result of threadfn, or -EINTR if wake_up_process was never called.